George crouch



G. CROUCH.

TRUNK 0R CASE.

(No Model.)

Patented Oct. 18, 1887.

MI Wal IV J W I ILESSBS UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE CROUCH, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

TRUNK OR CASE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 371,554, dated October18, 1887.

Application filed February 23, 1887. Serial No. 228,506. (No model.)

To coZZ whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, GEORGE CROUCH, a

citizen of the United States, and a resident of New York, in the countyof New York and State of New York, have invented new and usefulImprovements in Trunks or Cases, of which the following, taken inconnection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in trunks or cases; and itconsists in providing the body or cover, or both, thereof withcorrugations made integral with such body or cover, and also in thecombination, with such corrugations, of fillingstrips seated in saidcorrugations and held in place therein by means of a lining secured tothe inside of the trunk body or cover, for the purpose of com- Dining ina trunk or case great strength, durability, and lightness, as willhereinafter be more fully shown and described.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a perspective view ofmy improved trunk, and Fig. 2 represents a horizontal section of thesame. Fig. 3 represents a perspective sectional view of the invention asapplied to telescopic or other cases.

Similar letters refer to similar parts wherever they occur on thedifferent parts of the drawings.

Ain Figs. 1 and 2 is the body of the trunk, made of vulcanized fiber orpaper, stout paper-board, leather, rawhide, or analogous material,andsaid body is molded with the corrugations AA A, as shown in said Figs. 1and 2, such corrugations having their convex surfaces on the out-sideand their concave surfaces on the inside of the trunk, as shown. WVithinsuch corrugations I lay filling-strips B B B, made of wood or corrugatedmetal, and to the interior of the corrugated trunk-body I glue orotherwise secure a lining, O, of wood,paperboard, or analogous material,as shown in Fig. 2.

The cover of the trunk is constructed in the same manner as thetrunk-body above described. The lining C may be made of one or morelayers, as may be desired.

D D are the bunters or corner-caps, as usual.

E E are the anglepieces of the trunk-body, as is usual in trunks.

F is the joint at the upper portion of the trunk-body in the ordinarymanner.

By corrugating the body and cover of the trunk and placing in suchcorrugations the fillingstrips B B and covering the trunk on the insidewith the lining G, as above described, I produce a trunk of exceedinglygreat strength combined with. lightness, and it can be manufactured atless price and is far superior to trunks in which corrugated strips aremade independent of the trunk body or cover and afterward riveted orotherwise secured to the same.

In Fig. 3 I have represented a telescopic case composed of the bodyportion G and cover G, which may be made of any suitable materials-suchas vulcanized fiber or paper, stout paper-board, rawhide, leather, oranalogous materials-such body and cover being molded with thecorrugations g g, as shown in said Fig. 3.

I do not wish to confine myself to the number of corrugations on eachside, top, or bottom of said trunks or cases. They may also be made andarranged in any suitable direction on such trunks or cases withoutdeparting from the essence of my invention.

Having thus fully described the nature and construction of my invention,I wish to secure by Letters Patent, and claim- A trunk or case formedwith the corrugations A A A in its shell, combined with thefilling-strips B B B, seated in said corrugations, and lining 0, allarranged and constructed substantially in a manner and for the purposeset forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses, on this 11th day of February, A.D. 1887.

GEORGE CROUCH. Witnesses:

WM. G. CONKLIN,

WALTER F. DEXTER.

